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  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2004 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Alibris in 2004

Alibris, an online marketplace for rare, used, and out-of-print books, is trying to communicate to the professional book dealers who are its main suppliers that they are in the middle of a crisis. Supply is flooding the market, in part from individuals who simply want... View Details
Keywords: Price; Books; Crisis Management; Supply and Industry; Service Operations; Online Technology; Consumer Products Industry
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  • Research Summary

Current Research

Professor Gardner’s research investigates two primary research questions, both particularly relevant to the management of professional service firms:  (1) How are project teams able to most effectively use their members’ expertise in order... View Details
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Paul R. Lawrence: A Career of Rigor, Relevance, and Passion

By: Michael Tushman
Paul R. Lawrence was one of the earliest and most influential figures in the emergence of organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors.... View Details
Keywords: Organization Design; Contingency Theory; Public And Private Organizations; Rigor And Relevance; Biography; Organizational Design; Leadership; Learning; Leading Change
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  • July 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Raymond Jefferson: Trial by Fire

By: Anthony Mayo and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In the spring of 2021, Raymond (Ray) Jefferson applied for a job in President Joseph Biden’s administration. Ten years earlier, false allegations were used to force him to resign from his prior U.S. government position as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans’... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation
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  • Career Coach

Warren Radtke

Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as in the... View Details
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  • Web

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

    Asim I. Khwaja

    Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Director of the Center for International Development and the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-founder of the View Details

    • October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
    • Case

    Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc.

    Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to developing leadership potential in professionals of color and in increasing their representation... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Boston
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      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • 21 Oct 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: October 21, 2008

      major product came under regulatory scrutiny. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409037 LinkedIn Corp., 2008 Harvard Business School Case 709-426 In June 2008, the online professional... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 26 Sep 2017
      • Blog Post

      A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

      professionals network of the International Rescue Committee, dubbed “GenR”. I joined the community on a whim, but as I learned more about the work that the IRC did, including visiting their field station in Cote D’Ivoire, I grew more... View Details
      • 01 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 1

      capitalists at a firm and its success. When the individual investment professionals are highly specialized themselves, the marginal effect of increasing overall firm specialization is much weaker. The poorer performance by generalists... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
      • Supplement

      Mistry Architects (B)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
      This case is a follow-up of Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A) (Case 609-044). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry found and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible. The case uses a difficult... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Emerging Markets; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Disasters; Environmental Sustainability; Product Design; Innovation and Invention; Construction Industry
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      • 11 Nov 2022
      • Blog Post

      Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

      In honor of Veterans Day, we checked in with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, the club on campus for student veterans. The mission of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) is to help talented veterans transition out of the military to Harvard Business... View Details
      • June 2018
      • Case

      Relax (Boston): Innovating and Growing an Entrepreneurial Business

      By: Paul Marshall and Carole Carlson
      The Relax case traces the history of a massage services company from its founding in 2007 to mid-2017, when it is considering the best strategy for growth and an acquisition. The company's owner and top managers wonder how the firm should reorganize to cope with the... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Acquisition; Brands and Branding; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design
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      • June 2015
      • Case

      Beacon Group of Hong Kong: Finding Light in the Shadow Education Industry

      By: Christopher Marquis, Qi Li and Guy Leung
      After more than 25 years of operation, Beacon Group had grown from having 3 small classrooms on the fourth floor of a commercial building, to a network of 21 centers across Hong Kong with over 60,000 students enrolled per year. The key long-term challenge for the... View Details
      Keywords: Online Education; Education; Tutoring; Incentives; Hong Kong; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Family Business; Education Industry; Hong Kong
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      • 25 Jan 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      What Do Non-Governmental Organizations Do?

      Keywords: by Eric D. Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed
      • Web

      Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA

      Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
      • Career Coach

      Michele Biamonte

      Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She... View Details
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